News from July 2010
By DOT News Wire | Jul 15, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 15, 2010
The US Agriculture Department published a two page rule on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 15, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 15, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 15, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 15, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a seven page rule on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 15, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on July 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, issued the following statement today regarding the committee’s vote on legislation to reauthorize federal child nutrition programs...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2010 - During a Full Committee markup of the CLEAR Act (HR, 3534), Rep. Cynthia Lummis (WY) offered an amendment to strike all items in the bill related to onshore oil and gas development (Title II, Subtitle B). Democrats defeated this amendment in a 20 to 28 vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the following statement regarding the successful stoppage of oil flowing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2010 - Today, during a Full Committee markup of the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534), Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee voted against (21 to 27) a Republican amendment to protect jobs, lower energy prices and keep America less dependent on foreign sources of energy. The...
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today announced that the Committee will hold a public hearing on July 29th on the circumstances surrounding last year’s release of Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi, the Libyan official who was convicted of orchestrating the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2010 - During a House Natural Resources Committee markup of the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534), Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA) admitted to using this bill -which has been promoted as a response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - as a vehicle to pass legislation completely unrelated to the Gulf Coast disaster.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2010 - The Democrat majority on the House Natural Resources Committee today voted (22 to 26) against an amendment offered by Rep. Bill Cassidy (LA-06) to prohibit the Obama Administration from implementing a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: George Burns, who worked until he was 100, said of retirement: “Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65, I still had pimples.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: Modified - July 22, 2010 -
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, joined by Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl and all other committee Republicans, is asking the chairman to schedule a mark-up of an extension of current individual tax rates, which will expire in less than six months without legislative action. The senators wrote to Sen. Max Baucus, chairman, urging a mark-up as soon as possible to bring some certainty of continued tax relief in a struggling economy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - A body retrieved from below Moran Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on Monday, July 12 has been positively identified as that of 50 year old Kirby Porter of Mechanicsville, Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today in a letter to Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie requested that all Minnesota election records from the 2008 election cycle be preserved and asked for information about voter registration concerns previously raised by the government watchdog group Minnesota Majority.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2010
News Release: As a boy, Guy Hembling visited Fort Hancock, a former Army fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey which is now a unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. He noticed several buff brick buildings dating from the Spanish-American War era-former barracks and officers’ quarters which had fallen into disrepair. What a shame, he thought to himself, that such beautiful buildings were not restored and put to use.
